Steve Jobs
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They just need to be doing product design as right now and to open up a platform a bit.. that's it.. I could live with a premium if they kept producing of high level polish they do now..
But I disagree CybrainX.. The money they made while Steve Jobs was/is running the show is the highest they will ever make because of the pure greed, insanely fascist like behavior and ultimate business model of being closed up and they control freak mentality Steve Jobs has..
There's only 1 Jobs with such unwavering greed and vision on how to make money. He's quite possible the best salesman I've ever seen in my life and he uses marketing as a weapon.
He made Apple into Sony of the 70s and 80s.. when they held the market and everything they made was proprietary up the ass. Jobs has always been infatuated and obsessed with Sony's business model from back then..
You can see that because his strategy was similar to Sony's but instead of Walkman, Jobs went with iPod and a lot of that success had a lot to do, if not exclusively with the success of iPhone and so on.
No doubt about it.. proprietary and closed up = money.. simply because you enslave your customers.. they can't switch easily to anything else once they've developed enough of equity into software and hardware and digital content that only works in the Apple eco-system..
This is why this whole model is awful and why I thoroughly dislike it. Not to mention the fact that Steve Jobs is just a bad human being in my eyes.. if you read books and articles about him that are well documented he's a colossal douche and shouldn't be celebrated for anything unlike Steve Wozniak who is really a fantastic human being and someone to truly admire.
It's very hard to respect a person like that.. to me he's nothing and I really won't be sad at all when he goes.. he made sure that we are going backwards in progress and not forwards on account of profits and the biggest issue is that a lot of other companies, including Microsoft study this model.. for every one of us as consumers this is nothing but bad.
Thank god for Google.. the only remaining bright star in the technology world. They ain't perfect but they certainly did more good in a few years than any of the tech giants have in decades.
- Pretty sure that Woz was the brains, and Jobs the looks.
"Let's make lots of moneeeyyyy!"PublicVoice - < loool********
- Pretty sure that Woz was the brains, and Jobs the looks.